Wewak
Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak.
- City with 88,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 44 metres (144 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code WWK
- Description: provincial capital of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
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Latitude
-3.5542° or 3° 33′ 15″ south
Longitude
143.6271° or 143° 37′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
PG WWK
Open location code
6R85CJWG+8R
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Wewak” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ወውዋክ”
- Arabic: “ويواك”
- Asturian: “Wewak”
- Azerbaijani: “Wewak”
- Belarusian: “Вевак”
- Bengali: “ওয়েওয়াক”
- Cebuano: “Wewak (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Wewak”
- Chinese: “韋瓦克”
- Chinese: “韦瓦克”
- Dutch: “Wewak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويواك”
- Esperanto: “Wewak”
- Estonian: “Wewak”
- Finnish: “Wewak”
- French: “Wewak”
- Galician: “Wewak”
- German: “Wewak”
- Hausa: “Wewak”
- Hebrew: “וייווק”
- Hindi: “वेवाक”
- Indonesian: “Wewak”
- Italian: “Wewak Urban”
- Italian: “Wewak”
- Japanese: “ウェワク”
- Japanese: “ウエワク”
- Javanese: “Wewak”
- Kazakh: “Уевак”
- Kirghiz: “Веваk”
- Korean: “웨와크”
- Korean: “웨왁”
- Lithuanian: “Vevakas”
- Malay: “Wewak”
- Mingrelian: “ვევაკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wewak”
- Oromo: “Wewak”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਵਾਕ”
- Persian: “وواک”
- Polish: “Wewak”
- Portuguese: “Wewak”
- Pushto: “ویواک”
- Russian: “Вевак”
- Silesian: “Wewak”
- Somali: “Wewak”
- Spanish: “Wewak”
- Swahili: “Wewak”
- Swedish: “Wewak”
- Tajik: “Вевак”
- Tatar: “Вевак”
- Tok Pisin: “Wewak”
- Turkish: “Wewak”
- Ukrainian: “Вевак”
- Urdu: “ویواک”
- Uzbek: “Wewak”
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